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...murderers was later recruited to work for the police, and his confession to the killing was ignored. Soldiers and police could have prevented the murder and didn't; they could have caught the killers and didn't. How could all this have happened in the law-abiding United Kingdom? Because Northern Ireland, in its time of Troubles, was a land apart. In the late '80s, the British government adopted a more aggressive security policy to break the deadlock with the i.r.a. During that push, a secret army detachment known as the Force Research Unit managed to insert an agent named...
...winning novel, The Giver, about a community that, in order to end conflict, gives up colors, weather, choices and love, is read at schools throughout the world. “They read The Giver in Germany,” Lowry says, “as the beginning of their unit on World War II—the teachers use the community in the book as an example of the effects of totalitarian rule to soften the blow of upcoming lessons on their country’s own past...
...Mosul Airport, where the Americans are based, a spokesman denied that the Americans had fired indiscriminately. "When we received well aimed fire, we returned well aimed fire," said Capt. James Jarvis of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which came yesterday to back up the Special Forces already here. "As of right now, coalition forces are well in control of the city," he said, allowing that "we're in a period of instability...
Last month, with his unit deployed in the desert and about to invade Iraq, First Lieutenant Joe Finnigan made an important phone call—to Harvard Business School...
...month later, when HBS called up Tim and Cindi Finnigan to ask to interview their son, they said they had no idea how to reach him. With the help of the satellite phone of a reporter embedded with the “3/5,” as his unit is called, Finnigan conducted his interview through a Kuwaiti sandstorm...